Some call it wishful thinking, but President Barack Obama has all but declared an end to the global war on terror.

Obama is not claiming final victory over extremists who still seek to kill Americans and other Westerners. Instead, he is steering the United States away from what he calls an equally frightening threat: a country in a state of perpetual war.

In a landmark speech Thursday in which he sought to refine and recalibrate his counterterrorism strategy, Obama asserted that al-Qaida is "on the path to defeat," reducing the scale of terrorism to pre-Sept. 11 levels. That means that with the Afghanistan war winding down, Obama is unlikely to commit troops in large numbers to any conflict -- in Syria or other countries struggling with instability in the uncertain aftermath of the Arab Spring -- unless, as his critics fear, he tragically has underestimated al-Qaida's staying power.....

It isn't possible for Obama to be as stupid as some of his speeches make him out to be, If every radical SOB in Al Qaeda were dead---stone dead--we would still be in a world of Muslims who hate us, hate each other and enjoy killing and murdering and causing the deaths of thousands. WE are in a perpetual state of war. If not with Muslims then with Obama, his health care act, his IRS, his EPA, ICE, ATF, FBI. Obama has declared war on everyone who doesn't kiss his ass. Just like the Muslim he is.

The "threat" pre 9/11 was pretty great because the reality WAS 9/11. A threat is something that has a probability of happening in the future. If it is happening or has happened it is not a threat. The actual threat was reduced by the events of 9/11 because of the tremendous ramp-up of defense gainst the threat.

Zero wants to reduce or Military spending to pre 9/11, so of course the world is like pre 9/11 because he thinks so.

He needs to use the money stripped from the military to fund his socialist agenda. He now knows congress will without doubt stay republican in 2014 given the scandals and congress will never give it to him.

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posted on 05/25/2013 4:59:10 PM PDT
by Fzob
(In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. Jefferson)

How would that dumbsh*t know that if he doesn’t know anything about Benghazi or the IRS threatening, harassing and intimidating the TEA Party? He doesn’t have any credibility. He’s a clueless dumbsh*t.

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posted on 05/25/2013 4:59:39 PM PDT
by FlingWingFlyer
(If you think ObamaCare is a train wreck, wait until you see the amnesty bill.)

Obama’s idiocy is beginning to threaten our posterity.
I have no children, but my brother and my sister do,
my veteran friends do. How long must we suffer these
insults to what our eyes plainly tell us is happening.

Men cry peace, peace, but there is no peace...

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posted on 05/25/2013 5:05:45 PM PDT
by tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)

e in a world of Muslims who hate us, hate each other and enjoy killing and murdering and causing the deaths of thousands

That is, of course, the nature of Islam. That is all in the Koran and activity depends on having resources in excess of just enough that the people have a bare subsistence and a tiny ruling class lives in splendor. All through history whenever Moslems have been able to acquire that surplus they have beset and overrun their neighbors. That seemed to have ended in part in the 17th century after a series of massive military defeats that destroyed their martial ability and finally in the 1800s when the Turks were forced out of Greece and most of the Balkans. The wealth required for Jihad simply was not there. The Moslem hordes were prevented from conquering new wealth by the rapid advance of western technology and economy over that of the saracens. Then there was OIL. Now the Mohammedan world is rich beyond its dreams of a century ago and Islam is in Conquest mode. And the West is financing it and politically promoting it.

It will only take ONE anti Islam movie, and then who knows how the threat level will increase! Or did I miss something? You would think that Zero Dark Thirty movie would have caused all sorts of troubles.

obozo is not stupid...he spits out the rhetoric and expects you to “swallow” it, literally. This ahole is aiding and abetting an enemy of the United States, openly and without apology, and we had better call this ahole what he is...a traitor. That's barrack hussain “traitor” oboma. Speak up and speak out against this traitor however you can.

Obama wants it to be over but he is wrong. He does not know how a threat is defined in this context. Our threat of terrorism is actually greater every day someone can sneak into the country by crossing the unsecured border illegally.

“One must also understand that he is saying it is now at the same level it was at directly before 9/11....”

That’s the important point. Prior to 9/11 we were obviously at high risk. We just didn’t realize it (though we should have). Our risk didn’t suddenly go up after 9/11, and it’s not suddenly going down now.

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